Motivational Quotes

Art

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Art

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

26.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides